--- title: Lying still uses very little energy, so a big python can go weeks be… — How animals hunt · tree and pragmatics description: Lying still uses very little energy, so a big python can go weeks between meals, while a tiny shrew burns energy so fast that it must eat every few hours. Who acts: Lying, big python, tiny shrew, shrew. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lying, big python, tiny shrew, shrew), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:052-how-animals-hunt.lesson:13 # text = Lying still uses very little energy, so a big python can go weeks between meals, while a tiny shrew burns energy so fast that it must eat every few hours. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 052-how-animals-hunt.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 csubj _ _ 2 still still ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advmod 3 uses use VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 very very ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 so so ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 9 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 python python NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 13 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 14 weeks week NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 between between ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 meals meal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 18 while while SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:det 20 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:amod 21 shrew shrew NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 burns burn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 23 energy energy NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 fast fast ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 26 that that SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 28 must must AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 eat eat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 advcl _ _ 30 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 32 det _ _ 31 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 hours hour NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=29:obj 33 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | gerund | | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **use** | present | Lying | little energy | | | still | | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient | | 3 | **go** | can | a big python | | | meals | week | | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between meal=Location | | 4 | **burn** | present | a tiny shrew | energy | | | | fast *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | | 5 | **eat** | must | shrew | | | | hour | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:biology:052-how-animals-hunt.lesson:13`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [How animals hunt, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/11/) - next →: [How animals hunt, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/52-how-animals-hunt/)